Stroop Experiment

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The study of the link between automated operations and inhibition has been seen by psychology scholars as one of strong importance over time.
John Ridley Stroop (1935) demonstrated that a automated operation like reading words interference the execution of not automated actions. In the experiment conducted by Stroop, participants read words denoting colors (eg. Red,Yellow and Green). Regardless of what color that was written; when participants had mentioned the colour which was the written word, they did more slowly when the word "red" was written in "green" and quickly when the word "green" was written in green, ignoring ink color reduces the speed of reading. In Stroop experiment 70 college undergraduates (14 males and 56 females) were